NYPL Digital Collections
live ArtBooksNew York Public Library Digital Collections — 900k+ digitised photographs, maps, manuscripts & prints. Free API key.
2 tools
0ms auth
free tier 50 calls/day
Tools
search Search the NYPL Digital Collections collection by keyword. Returns matching items with ids (pass an id to item), titles, creators/sources, dates and links.
No parameters required.
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Response
item Fetch full details for one NYPL Digital Collections item by id — an NYPL item uuid (from search).
No parameters required.
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Response
Test with curl
The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.
List available tools
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/nypl/mcp \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'Call a tool
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/nypl/mcp \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search","arguments":{}}}'Use with the SDK
Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.
TypeScript
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("search", {}); ask_pipeworx
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("new york public library digital collections — 900k+ digitised photographs, maps, manuscripts & prints");Related packs
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